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TIL A total of 48 people went to jail for watergate.
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TIL the Statue of Liberty was originally designed in the 1860s for Egypt. Named 'Progress Carrying the Light to Asia', French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi modelled the statue after an Egyptian woman dressed in a veil. Due to costs, the idea was rejected, and a lighthouse was erected instead.
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TIL when Christmas first began, the celebrations included getting intoxicated, having sex, and singing naked in the streets (the origin of modern Christmas caroling).
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TIL having a BMI in the middle of the healthy range (21.75) makes you thinner than 92% of American adults.
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TIL that Israel and India are the only two countries on earth who have banned cosmetics testing on animals
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TIL that the Unabomber, the Shoe Bomber, the Atlanta Olympic Park bomber, the 1993 World Trade Center bombers, and one of the Oklahoma City bombers are all incarcerated at the same prison.